Peter Fischli Knihy

This little gem is the fourth edition of the catalogue to Suddenly This Overview , the influential Fischli & Weiss exhibition of unfired clay objects which took place in December and January of 1981 and 82. That exhibition represented the first major collaboration between the artists, who have since become two of the most influential figures on the international scene. In this pocket-sized volume, the small, very hand-made-looking clay sculptures are reproduced in low-tech black-and-white and accompanied by the amusing descriptive captions with which they were originally exhibited. Thus a little man on a bicycle comes with the caption, "Dr. Hoffmann on the first LSD trip," while two figures walking along a sidewalk with guitars are described, "Mick Jagger and Brian Jones going home satisfied after composing ‘I can't get no satisfaction.’" Classic.

This artist book presents 150 large-format illustrations of early photographs from the series Equilibres (1984 and 1987), most of which have not been published before. The photos are tense compositions depicting kitchenware, furniture and vegetables, with interesting titles such as Natural Grace, Fart, A Modern Woman in Teheran or The Power of the Invisible.

An artist's book by the renowned Swiss duo dedicated to the questions that everyone asks themselves once in a Can something be unbelievable? Should I get drunk? Could I be Japanese? Is the freedom of birds overrated? Am I a farmer in winter? Does unease grow by itself? Should I crawl into my bed and stop producing things all the time?

A delightful artist's book chronicle of the Swiss artists' beloved snowman sculptures In 1987, Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012) created Snowman, a permanently frozen snowman sculpture installed outside (and preserved by) the Römerbrücke power station in Saarbrücken, Germany. In 2017, Fischli was commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to remake the work. His Snowman consisted of three copper spheres contained in a large freezer. As frost accumulated on the spheres, the snowman grew in size, eventually requiring defrosting, his smile redrawn daily to preserve his expression. This artist's book tells the story of the Snowman from 1987 to today, chronicling its iterations in a photo essay. It also illustrates the transformation of the snowman's cultural meanings since the 18th century, from "bogeyman" to loveable friend, and shows how the generation of electricity has changed in the last 35 years, from thermal power station to solar energy.

Since 1987, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger has combined the advertisements for its gallery program with images of traditional Swiss life; a montage of contrasts that brings local traditions face to face with a globalized art world's cosmopolitan self-image.For roughly thirty years, the advertisement series has appeared parallel in the art magazines Artforum and Kunstbulletin and has helped the gallery achieve a high level of recognizability.Accompanies the exhibition Backcovers: Summer Fall Winter Spring, 21 Apr - 8 Jul 2018, Museum im Bellpark Kriens, Switzerland.German and English text.

Das Künstlerbuch erscheint anläßlich der Ausstellung Fischli/Weiss „How to Work Better“ im Guggenheim Museum, New York und Museu Jumex , Mexico City 2016. „Flowers & Mushrooms“ ist eine verbesserte Neuauflage - sämtliche Scans wurden nach den Originalen optimiert - das erfolgreiche Künstlerduo, das 1999 anläßlich der Ausstellung im Musée d`art Moderne de la ville de Paris erschien. Das Manuskript - die Überlagerung farbiger Fotos - entstand in den Jahren 1997 - 98.

Peter Fischli and David Weiss have made some of the most highly prized artist's books of their generation, including Suddenly this Overview (1982), Visible World (2000), and Will Happiness Find Me? (2003). Their new book, Peter Fischli David Weiss: Polyurethane Objects, continues this tradition. Fischli and Weiss have been making their Polyurethane Objects since 1992. Hand-carved and -painted with almost (but not quite) machine-like precision, these sculptures overturn the notion of the readymade while uncovering, in the clutter of daily life, both humor and poetry. Edited and sequenced by Peter Fischli, the book features 140 sculptures (one per page) depicting such humble items as power tools, coffee cups, and shipping pallets. Meanwhile the fold-out cover shows the sculptures as they are exhibited, in arrangements that call to mind the distinctive disarray of a workshop or an artist's studio.